Backend Engineer

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Headquartered in Karachi since 2002, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages.

Job summary

We are adding a Backend Engineer to our Orders team. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. Remote, open to candidates across Pakistan. Few meetings, lots of written updates. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

What you'll be doing

• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces
• Model data and write migrations for PostgreSQL, MySQL or DynamoDB
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of backend development experience in a production environment
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services

Preferred

• Terraform or Pulumi
• Kubernetes, including Helm charts

Perks and benefits

• Medical insurance
• Provident fund
• Paid leave
• Two bonuses a year

Please mention your notice period and expected salary.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Ryeloft Apps.